Peculiar Punctuation Marks

While some punctuation marks are very straightforward names, such as “full stop” and “question mark”, others simply sound peculiar.

16:16 11 August 2015

After Jennifer Aniston and Jason Theroux wed, a fan took to Twitter and asked: “Hyphen or no hyphen?!? Aniston-Theroux? Or Aniston Theroux. Or Just Theroux OMG Imagine.

 

Hyphen is one of the most used punctuation marks and is a Greek word that combines hypo, which means “under” and hen “one.” The Greeks wrote it below the words. It indicates that two words are joined together and should not be read separately.

 

Greek scholars also gave the name colon “limb” to a sizeable section of verse or speech. Meanwhile, a shorter piece of text is called comma, which means that something is cut.

 

Also, the Greek scholars used an apostrophe in words like can’t to show that something is missed out. The term came from the word apostrepho, which means to “turn away.” There’s also a huge controversy over apostrophes that are used in possessive nouns like kids’ or kid’s whether they are needed or even logical.